Statutory guidance

Pressure Equipment (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

This Statutory Instrument (SI) amends the essential safety requirements for placing UKCA marked pressure equipment on the Great Britain market.

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Published: 5 March 2024
• Last updated: 14 March 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

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Details

Essential safety requirements in the Pressure Equipment (Safety) Regulations 2016 require that personnel and materials used in the early stages of manufacturing can only be certified by bodies based in the UK.

This is creating short and long-term problems for pressure equipment manufacturers intending to place UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) marked equipment on the Great Britain market. 

These unresolved supply chain issues place extra costs and administrative burdens on pressure equipment manufacturers, reduce the ability of UK businesses and consumers to purchase pressure equipment required for domestic industries, workplaces and homes.  This SI amends the essential safety requirements to remove these problems.

This SI allows the relevant bodies based in the European Economic Area (EEA) in addition to those based in the UK:

• the certifying of permanent joining (welding)
• non-destructive testing personnel
• material manufacturers’ quality assurance systems

This will ease friction in the supply chains in this sector, without reducing safety.

Laid on: 13 March 2024

Published 5 March 2024
Last updated 14 March 2024 + show all updates

1. 14 March 2024

   Laying date and draft explanatory memorandum changed.

2. 5 March 2024

   First published.